(ANSON GEORGE) Walter Richard; compiler A Voyage Round the W

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(ANSON, GEORGE.) Walter, Richard; compiler. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. 13 folding maps and plans, 29 folding plates. [34], 417, [3] pages. 4to, attractive 19th-century paneled calf gilt by J. Larkins, minor wear; minor foxing, two closed tears to maps; edges tinted red; subscriber's signature on title page, bookseller's tag on rear free endpaper. (GM) London, 1748

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first edition of the official account of Anson's voyage to disrupt Spanish shipping in the Pacific, one of the most famous 18th-century circumnavigations. Anson's flagship the Centurion first spent time off the coast of Chile, sacked the small Peruvian town of Paita, went on to Acapulco, visited various Pacific islands, stopped in Macau and Canton, and made a dramatic capture of a galleon bound for Manila before returning to England. European Americana 748/225; Hill 1817 ("a masterpiece of descriptive travel"); Palau 12865.
Provenance: subscriber's copy issued to Sir Edward Hulse, at that time the physician to King George II; sold by D.P. Elder and Morgan Shepard of San Francisco, circa 1900; collection of Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905) of Los Angeles; Christies Rindge sale, 22 April 1994, lot 2; Glen McLaughlin collection.